(August 26, 2018 at 6:01 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Australia too, does not ban them, but after 1 mass shooting they got their act together.
Actually this is not true. We had mass shootings before Port Arthur, and even one in Queen St Melbourne about 100 yards from where I worked. But Port Arthur, combined with a Prime Minister who had the guts to do something about it got enough people on-side, that apart from the NRA, the support for reform what overwhelming. He knew it would cost him seats at the next election, but he stuck with it.
As far as the USA goes, there seems to be enough people, and a big enough lobby group, who accept the cost benefit analysis that mass shootings are a price that they are willing to pay for the right to own pretty but lethal toys.
Norm
